Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor

[prokoudine]

Interesting. I wonder why Inkscape has never added additional color model support? AFAIK it's not horrendously difficult and there's a lot of libraries out there to help with it.

What libraries are you thinking of specifically?

[recyclebin]

Inkscape doesn't really support CMYK, that's already one major reason it can't be used professionally.
Inkscape was designed as an SVG editor so it never really needed CMYK - it was meant for web graphics, not print.
Illustrator on the other hand has always been about print, being built on PostScript.
Illustrator's only real competitor in the commercial space was FreeHand, which Adobe killed off when they bought it through their acquisition of Macromedia.
There's also CorelDRAW but I don't know anyone who uses it.

For what it's worth, I've started using the Affinity product suite and I quite like Designer, and that's coming from someone that has used Illustrator for years.

It's maybe personal but I genuinely gave Inkscape multiple tries but in the end the UX is just too messy, and essentially the same can be said about parts of the GUI in general as well.

I do however appreciate the CLI scripting interface. Extremely valuable for proper batch processing for me.

[Vallendalf]

If Affinity worked under linux, dreams

[Hans Bull]

Inkscape before they'll consider using it professionally? Maybe it's more workflow habit and eco system lock-in or am I just indulging in wishful thinking?

No sane professional will use software where a simple update from the stable repo will break trivial tasks like eps import with a ridiculous "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tinycss2'" - the usual python clusterf'ck - because professionals need to get their shit done. So why, at all, does a file import need a python module handling css?